Word: woodsman
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...cover a lot of landfill in a hurry. If his roots seem shallow, it is because he finds no place to sink them deeper. "Florida is spiritually unclaimed," he writes. "There is no harmonic abstraction, no stereotype such as the cowboy, the Yankee trader, the trapper, the woodsman, the planter--no hero of history around which the population can rally." Rothchild feels most at home on the highway, caught between a senior citizen driving his Oldsmobile at 10 m.p.h. and a teenager in a Mercedes closing in from behind...
...holiday one seeks to be what one is not. The accountant turns into a woodsman, the farmer into a city slicker...
...princess who responds a mite too ardently to his wake-up kiss. The two also play their evil doppelgängers, giving a psychological twist to the old notion that fairy-tale characters are either all good or all bad. In this case, they are both. A gruff woodsman (George Dzundza) narrates the tale with the accent of a Borscht Belt comedian. "I gotta great princess for you," he tells the prince. "A dowry you wouldn't believe." Jeremy Kagan's fluid, floaty direction pays visual homage to the sensuous style of Book Illustrator Kay Nielsen. Like...
...integrity, good value and handcrafted quality. Bean's merchandise is not necessarily expensive ($18 for its best button-down striped Oxford-cloth shirts), and it is not elegant. Over the years a kind of reverse chic has attached itself to its sturdy Yankee clothes and shoes: its $40 woodsman's pants, "all wool and a yard wide," say, or the $73 sheepskin-lined boots that look as if they were created for a logger. They were...
...birch chunks out to lighten the truck, then jacks, wedges, winches and ponders. At last Linda groans free, and all that remains is to retrieve the half cord of jettisoned birch. There is never a thought of leaving the firewood behind: in darkest February, it will heat the woodsman's ten-room New Hampshire house for a week...